Recaps

Xu Qi'an killed Xu Pingfeng, strengthened his Gu Arts by absorbing the Gu God’s power, and intervened to save Li Miaozhen from the Heaven Sect. After helping secure alliances and reunite his family, he married Lin'an and welcomed his guests.

• Xu Qi'an killed Xu Pingfeng, while Desolation took the Superintendent overseas to prepare for the great tribulation, and Xu Qi'an reunited with Wei Yuan.
• Wei Yuan explained the seal on the Shaman God and the ancient calamity, while Xu Qi'an set his sights on reaching Half-Step Martial God.
• Xu Qi'an brought Ji Baiqing and her children back together at the Xu Residence, where he told them he had killed Xu Pingfeng.
• Xu Qi'an learned that the Gu God was appearing in Xu Lingyin’s dreams and went to the Southern Frontier, where he discovered the Gu God was shaping her Strength Gu into a Seven Absolutes Gu.
• Xu Qi'an absorbed the Gu God’s power in the Extreme Abyss and advanced his Seven Absolutes Gu to Transcendent, resisting the Gu God’s attempt to possess him.
• Xu Qi'an promised the Gu Race an enduring alliance, then joined others in stopping the Heaven Sect from erasing Li Miaozhen’s memories and secured her release.
• Xu Qi'an arranged a prospective alliance against Aranda and prepared for his wedding to Lin'an, while the Heaven and Earth Society gathered to help Li Miaozhen and share in the celebrations.
• Xu Qi'an married Lin'an, privately bowed to Ji Baiqing and called her Mother, then greeted guests including Huaiqing, Wei Yuan, Luo Yuheng, and Yang Gong.

After his wedding to Lin'an, Xu Qi'an helped Huaiqing and Li Miaozhen advance before leading an assault on Aranda to rescue Shenshu. The battle exposed the Buddha’s connection to the Dao Venerable’s Human Sect avatar, and Xu Qi'an left preparing to seek greater strength and allies against the threats ahead.

• Xu Qi'an held his wedding banquet with Lin'an, endured the guests’ bridal-chamber games, and spent their wedding night with her.
• Huaiqing and Li Miaozhen advanced to the Transcendent realm as Xu Qi'an and his allies prepared to attack Aranda.
• Xu Qi'an and Shenshu broke Aranda’s defenses and battled the Bodhisattvas, but the Buddha’s Dharma Idol intervened and injured both sides.
• Xu Qi'an entered the Demon-Suppressing Ravine, found Shenshu trapped in the Buddha’s flesh, and helped him recover his head and awaken as a Half-Step Martial God.
• Xu Qi'an joined Shenshu against the Buddha, and they used the Confucian Sage’s Carving Knife to destroy the Buddha’s Dharma Idol before retreating from Aranda.
• Shenshu revealed that the Buddha had created him from part of His soul and the dying Asura King’s remnant, while Xu Qi'an and Daoist Jinlian connected the Buddha to the Human Sect avatar and the ancient corpse’s tomb.
• Xu Qi'an told Wei Yuan that the Buddha was the Dao Venerable’s Human Sect avatar, and Wei Yuan advised him to seek alliances and travel overseas to find descendants of the Gods and Devils.

Xu Qi'an sailed overseas to investigate the mutations among descendants of Gods and Devils and confronted Desolation on Gods and Devils Island. While the Nine-Tailed Fox advanced to First Rank and Great Feng prepared to shelter Mahayana believers, Xu Qi'an caught up with Desolation near the island’s Gate of Light.

• Xu Qi'an helped Chu Caiwei win the Directorate of Astronomy’s election for Superintendent, then learned from the Gu God’s warning and his own visions that a calamity was approaching.
• Xu Qi'an left for the Southern Sea with the Nine-Tailed Fox, met the Merfolk Queen Pearl, and learned that the Flood Dragon and dragonkin had been driven mad by the island’s altered Spiritual Essence.
• Xu Qi'an and his companions discovered that Desolation had entered Gods and Devils Island seeking to regain his strength, and they fought their way past the island’s guardians and deadly regions.
• Xu Qi'an used a fiery vertebra from an ancient God or Devil to escape Desolation’s black-hole form, then learned from the Superintendent that the island’s center held the key to the first great calamity.
• Xu Qi'an accompanied the Nine-Tailed Fox to the Qingqiu Fox’s remains, where she refined its Spiritual Essence and advanced to First Rank as the Silver-Haired Enchantress.
• Desolation reached the Gate of Light and told the Superintendent he intended to use him as the Gatekeeper, while Xu Qi'an and the Silver-Haired Enchantress entered the time-slowed region in pursuit.
• Wei Yuan and Zhao Shou arranged for Mahayana believers to migrate from the Western Regions to Great Feng before the Buddha’s Dharma Assembly, and Du'e agreed to the plan.
• Xu Qi'an and the Nine-Tailed Fox caught up with Desolation beside a pillar of light, where Desolation recognized Xu Qi'an’s short-range teleportation as a spatial artifact.

Xu Qi'an obtained the Gate and learned why the Transcendent Ranks sought to replace the Heavenly Dao, while Buddha began devouring the Western Regions and invading Leizhou. Xu Qi'an became a Half-Step Martial God, repelled Buddha, and forced the Shaman God Cult to surrender its territory before turning to the Gu Race's relocation and his path to Martial God.

• Xu Qi'an obtained the Gate through the Peace Saber and escaped Desolation with the Nine-Tailed Fox.
• The Superintendent explained that the Gatekeeper had to be a martial warrior and that the Transcendent Ranks sought to replace the Heavenly Dao by devouring Fate.
• Huaiqing established Mahayana Buddhism as the state religion, weakening Buddha until the Shaman God Cult supplied an imperial seal that enabled his advance into Leizhou.
• Shenshu and Great Feng's Transcendents resisted Buddha while Xu Qi'an absorbed an ancient God and Devil's Spiritual Essence and became a Half-Step Martial God.
• Xu Qi'an rescued Arhat Du'e and joined Shenshu in forcing Buddha to abandon Leizhou and retreat to the Western Regions.
• Xu Qi'an attacked Jingshan City and forced the Shaman God to absorb the shamans, leaving Yan, Kang, and Jing for Great Feng to take.
• Great Feng settled Mahayana Buddhist refugees, and Hengyuan accepted the abbacy after Abbot Panshu passed into nirvana.
• Xu Qi'an crushed two Transcendent Realm Gu beasts and ordered the Gu Race to gather for relocation, while Bodhisattva Liuli approached the Gu God to ask how to advance to Martial God.